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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."
Reading
"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."
Poetry
"Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect."
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"Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce."
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"Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way."
Art
"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."
Language
"In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?"
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"The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise."
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"I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition."
Now
"That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way."
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"I like poems that are complex."
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"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
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"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."
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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"Many of my poems are not sexual."
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